Corvette and HD considered the two American icons in sport transportation. They also share similar demographics. From a strategic viewpoint, Harley makes a good stalking horse for GM in terms of market behavior.

I think Tadge, when stating that they have probably wrung out as much as they could from the FE platform, may have been speaking as much in terms of market position and strategy as he was from an engineering POV. No doubt the HD is much more of a toy than the Corvette, but it would be interesting to see how much the two segments actually intersect, IOW, cross sales. HD was riding high for quite a few years capitalizing on the aging of the boomers when the boomers were becoming empty nesters and so disposable income became more available. HD profitted from that but may have sat on their laurels a bit much. But now, HDs segment is spending their money on medications and mobility therefore becoming an issue. Heavy bikes too.
They have not successfully broadened their reach and continued investing in the traditional HD culture. The V-rod was not successful and they seemed to retrench from that. Now they may be “running out of runway”.
I think Corvette has more alternative strategies they could implement which Is why I believe we’ll see a expansion of the Corvette brand into the sport SUV arena. That gives the more traditional Corvette buyer the opportunity to continue on w the Corvette brand as the Cayenne, F-Pace, Stelvio have done for their respective segments. It will also keep unit costs down on powertrains so the “sports car” is not shouldering the economic burden on its own as it has been doing so far.

Never meant to be a Harley bashing thread. Just looking to present the market outlook for a similarly beloved product like the Corvette. Are lessons there to be learned?
I also gave viewpoint/opinion regarding my preferences for bikes.

When I look at a HD, all I see is the same Motorcycle with either more or less stuff added or subtracted and they have a different model name for each addition or subtraction of accessories. With saddle bags or without, leather or fiberglass. Fat gas tank or slimmer one, but still pretty much the same core motorcycle. Honda has multiple sizes and engine configurations and if you put two of them side by side, you wouldn't think they were related at all. They really are completely different. GM got in the same HD kind of rut with OLDSMOBILE. It got to be just a re-badged Buick / high end Chevy or lower end Cadillac. Why buy the same car with a different name? It eventually killed off an old motoring icon that used to be an innovative brand leader, by offering something different than it's corporate stablemates.
On the other hand, why would I want to buy a Corvette SUV when I can probably buy the same thing branded as a GMC or a Cadillac? Just because the first letter in SUV stands for SPORT doesn't mean the same thing to me as a sporty car. If I want a sporty car, I would look at Corvette. If I want a sporty SUV, then I'd look at GMC, Cadillac or maybe Chevy. Different divisions of the same corporation (GM) making the same product, just to get a piece of the market, spreads the possibilities of success pretty thin.